Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... took service in the Varangian bodyguard of the Greek emperor at Constantinople . A few brave 1 ' I have persecuted its native inhabitants beyond all reason . Whether gentle or simple , I have cruelly oppressed them ; many I unjustly ...
... took service in the Varangian bodyguard of the Greek emperor at Constantinople . A few brave 1 ' I have persecuted its native inhabitants beyond all reason . Whether gentle or simple , I have cruelly oppressed them ; many I unjustly ...
Page 288
... took the offensive , but his discontented vassals and the French King . All round the eight - hundred - mile perimeter of Aquitaine , bands of fighting men poured in to help their compatriots , while the clergy everywhere took the lead ...
... took the offensive , but his discontented vassals and the French King . All round the eight - hundred - mile perimeter of Aquitaine , bands of fighting men poured in to help their compatriots , while the clergy everywhere took the lead ...
Page 315
... took to the woods , among them the poet John Gower , who after- wards recalled in his long Latin epic , Vox Clamantis , the pangs of hunger he suffered while living on acorns and trembling for his life in wet coppices . Others , less ...
... took to the woods , among them the poet John Gower , who after- wards recalled in his long Latin epic , Vox Clamantis , the pangs of hunger he suffered while living on acorns and trembling for his life in wet coppices . Others , less ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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